​Eleanor Wood lives in Brighton, where she can mostly be found hanging around in cafes and record shops, running on the beach, pretending to be French and/or that it's the 1960s and writing deep into the night. She used to make a photocopied fanzine, moved on to embarrassingly personal blogging and has written for magazines like Elle, Time Out and The Face. She has a fringe, is fond of eyeliner and wishes she had a dog.

Interview

1. I loved your book! Where did the idea come from?Thank you so much! The book stemmed from a few different ideas. I’ve always wanted to write a story set at a music festival – when I was a teenager I had some of my best and most dramatic times at festivals; it was always an adventure. Most notably, when I was 17 and my friend Russell and I had a fake wedding at Reading Festival (and got in terrible trouble with our parents when it was in the newspapers)!

I have also always been really interested in blogging and wanted to bring that into the story as well. A few years ago I got into a Twitter conversation with one of my favourite 90s popstars, and this got me thinking about how social media has changed the relationship between ‘normal’ people and their idols. I wanted to look at what it means to be a fan, as well as how hard it is to be a celebrity these days.

So, the result was My Secret Rockstar Boyfriend!2. Are you working on anything at the moment?I’m currently working on my new book, which is about girls in bands, a battle of the bands contest and a major makeover. I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to say about it yet, but I’m really excited about it.

3. Who are some of your favourite authors?Just off the top of my head, I love Rainbow Rowell and Non Pratt and Sarra Manning. I am currently very excited about books by Harriet Reuter Hapgood and Sara Barnard. All-time favourites also include Emma Forrest, Blake Nelson and Esther Freud.

4. If you could live in one fantasy book world, what one would you choose and why?It’s not strictly speaking a fantasy world, but my dream is to be Topaz from I Capture The Castle – looking glamorous while wearing dresses made from potato sacks, telling stories of my mysterious past as an artist’s muse and living in a derelict castle all sounds pretty ideal to me.

5. Do you have any advice for new writers?For me, I always start with an idea from my own life and experiences, which develops into a fictional story. MSRB started off based in reality but then my imagination took over. It seems to work for me, so my advice is to start off with what you know and then go crazy with it, basically!

My Secret Rockstar Boyfriend

Geeky girl meets famous boy ...what could go wrong? Tuesday Cooper is happy being normal -doing her a-levels and indulging in her twin obsessions: buying weird vintage clothes in charity shops and writing her beloved music blog (which nobody ever reads). Her love for music started when she was thirteen and had a massive crush on Jackson Griffith, teen rock god and SUPER HOT LOVE OF HER LIFE. Now Tuesday's eighteen and has moved on to fancying boys in real life and Jackson went off the celebrity radar years ago. So it can't be him that's messaging her on her blog, can it? From one girl's computer to the pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival, this is a love story for anyone who has ever wished that someone would sing a love song just for them. Dreams can come true ...